A Million Bones of Stone

08/01/2024

Sorry I have not posted for a while . . . life, you know. Anyway, this is an important signature drive to ensure proper acknowledgement of an amateur fossil hunter's discovery after a snubbing by a recent BBC documentary.

Name the giant pliosaur after its finder Philip Jacobs

24/07/2023

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-mammal-dinosaur-once-in-a-lifetime-fossil.html

A badger-like mammal was sinking its teeth into the ribs of a dinosaur three times its size when they were buried in volcanic ash 125 million years ago, capturing the pair in a deadly embrace.

16/07/2023

There's still time to enroll in the 2023 season for the Triceratops Gulch Project. Rates start at $750 and include field transportation, meals, tools, and expert instruction.
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15/07/2023

15/07/2023

A fossil has been identified as an ancient alligator species with a very short snout, ridged skull and teeth made for crushing hard shells, suggesting that it may have munched on snails along with other prey

10/07/2023

The cover of the new Prehistoric Times was done by yours truly (Sean Kotz). The model is Ancient Era Artistry's Acrocanthosaurus and there is a really good interview with the creative force behind the company, Matt Ramieri. His kits are excellent.

10/07/2023

10/07/2023

22/06/2023

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/june/new-species-of-dinosaur-named-after-museum-scientist-paul-barrett.html

The remains of the armoured dinosaur were discovered on the Isle of Wight.

22/06/2023

New duckbill in Chile:

Chilean scientists made a major discovery, a new species of duck-billed dinosaurs, which took refuge in Chilean Patagonia.RELATED: 4,300 dinosaur footprint f...

22/06/2023

https://scitechdaily.com/new-species-of-dome-headed-dinosaurs-may-have-had-elaborate-headgear/?expand_article=1

CT scans indicate that certain pachycephalosaurs had intricate structures on their domes. If you look at enough dinosaur fossils, you'll see the remarkable diversity of bony ornaments adorning their skulls, from the intimidating horns of the Triceratops to the mohawk-like crests of the Hadrosaurs a

16/06/2023

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-fossil-reveals-smallest-sauropodomorph-dinosaur.html

A tiny relative of titanosaurs has been uncovered in South Africa.

16/06/2023

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/dinosaurs-laid-eggs-so-do-we-classify-them-all-as-reptiles

Researchers explore whether all dinosaurs were reptiles. Does evolutionary evidence argue for a different means of classifying them?

16/06/2023

This summary goes back to 2019; the research goes back to 2005.

History of Grass Evolution Written in Dinosaur P**p November 4, 2019 Photo by Sugeesh licensed by CC BY-SA 3.0 Grasses dominate our planet today but that has not always been the case. Because of both their ecological and cultural importance , the origin and diversification of grasses has long been a...

21/04/2023

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?rct%3Dj%26sa%3Dt%26url%3Dhttps://phys.org/news/2023-04-forgotten-colorado-fossils-rewrite-evolutionary.html%26ct%3Dga%26cd%3DCAEYBSoTMTgwMTA3MTU4NTMyMzA3MzgzMTIaZGRhYzY0MDAwNzUzZTE1YTpjb206ZW46VVM%26usg%3DAOvVaw3oc55amHG60v3LUL_7W_2Z&source=gmail&ust=1682183646802000&usg=AOvVaw0nNJ-CDC5_ea4u124mc4rj

Botanists and paleontologists, led by researchers from CU Boulder, have identified a fossil chili pepper that may rewrite the geography and evolutionary timeline of the tomato plant family.

18/04/2023

17/04/2023

https://www.earth.com/news/therizinosaur-with-scissor-like-claws-discovered-in-the-uk/

Therizinosaur with scissor-like claws discovered in the UK • Earth.com

17/04/2023

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-tully-monster-revealed.html

For more than half a century, the Tully monster (Tullimonstrum gregarium), an enigmatic animal that lived about 300 million years ago, has confounded paleontologists, with its strange anatomy making it difficult to classify. Recently, a group of researchers proposed a hypothesis that Tullimonstrum w...

17/04/2023

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/april/earliest-ichthyosaur-fossil-discovered-on-remote-arctic-island.html

New research suggests that ichthyosaurs may have pre-dated the age of the dinosaurs after surviving Earth's largest mass extinction event.

17/04/2023

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-fossils-reveal-long-term-relationship-feathered.html

New fossils in amber have revealed that beetles fed on the feathers of dinosaurs about 105 million years ago, showing a symbiotic relationship of one-sided or mutual benefit, according to an article titled "Symbiosis between Cretaceous dinosaurs and feather-feeding beetles" published in Proceedings....

06/02/2023

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230202-the-weird-dinosaurs-of-americas-lost-continent

Hidden within North America is a long-forgotten continent once ruled by a bizarre cast of dinosaurs – but only a handful of fossils have ever been found.

27/01/2023

https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/earliest-arctic-primate/

52-million-year-old primate relatives lived in an Arctic environment that would have been a warm swamp.

27/01/2023

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-022-00644-4

A new long-legged, spatula-beaked, filter-feeding pterodactyloid pterosaur from Upper Jurassic plattenkalk limestones at Wattendorf, Bavaria, Southern Germany, is remarkable for its completeness, unusual dentition and hints of the preservation of soft tissues, including wing membranes. The fully art...

27/01/2023

I gotta say, I'd love to just find something when out walking.

A former teacher found a mammoth bone west of Edmonton last year. A local museum has accepted the specimen as a donation.

13/01/2023

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-fossils-reveal-prehistoric-patagonian-dinosaurs.html

A study led by The University of Texas at Austin is providing a glimpse into dinosaur and bird diversity in Patagonia during the Late Cretaceous, just before the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct.

12/01/2023

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?rct%3Dj%26sa%3Dt%26url%3Dhttps://phys.org/news/2023-01-phylogenetic-bracketing-dinosaurs-neuron-density.html%26ct%3Dga%26cd%3DCAEYAioTNDEwODczMzY5NTIwMTgxMjYwNzIaYzZjMzE2NjRhZDM1NTZlOTpjb206ZW46VVM%26usg%3DAOvVaw0r_m-T7aav7C7G8zyXNvpn&source=gmail&ust=1673640586568000&usg=AOvVaw2-v6skCkD6XElBbBTD9HcO

Neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel, with Vanderbilt University, has shaken up the paleontology community with a study she conducted that resulted in evidence of some dinosaurs having neuron density in their brains equal to that of some modern primates.